25 new acquisitions

Successful first day at the 45th Austin Record Convention (apart from leaving my glasses on a pile of 45s somewhere! 😳 Fortunately they were swiftly handed in after an announcement). Back tomorrow, on the hunt 🧐

New acquisition: "The Lieutenant's Last Salute" about the My Lai Massacre - it defended mass murderer Calley, saying he followed orders and that there was a miscarriage of justice. B-side is anti-drugs, anti-Hippie culture

Posted a single on YouTube by Fabrizio de André - unknown to me, they are rare English re-recordings of his songs from 1969, many users from Italy were excited to listen

New acquisitions: "Mi camino para Vietnam" - Hispanic-America, recorded in Rio Grande Valley TX; "Missing in Action (In Viet Nam), rare 'song poem'; "21st Birthday", Australian country, hard to find 7"; "Vietnam" by Marty Collins, anti-war country song

Kent State demonstration on 4 May 1970 - "the war’s brutality had reached American soil shocked the nation", within weeks, CSNY released the song "Ohio", one of 80+ songs about the shooting rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

Nina Simone's 1967 "Backlash Blues: "You raise my taxes, freeze my wages and send my son to Vietnam, you give me second class houses and second class schools, do you think that all colored folks are just second-class fools?" www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Original release of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" (Rag Baby Records # 1001) from 1965 - EP issued in an envelope with lyrics / music inserts. This is a more acoustic version, with war sound-effects compared to the 1967 album version: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

New acquisition: Vietnamese 12", with post war songs, including "Let Us Make Music, American Friends"

On the hunt in Vienna

Stamba, repurposed publishing house in Tbilisi, lots of records but not for sale

Tbilisi record stop #3, "XO Vinyl Shop & Bar" - picked up a rare North Vietnamese 10" with patriotic songs

Cafe Novel, vinyl, books, and coffee, Tbilisi

Greetings from Tbilisi, Georgia, on the hunt, at Vodkast Records🧐

Recent soul anti-war songs posted on youtube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Also Civil Rights-related

"Napalm Sticks to Kids" (1972) performed by active-duty GIs Covered Wagon Musicians, a vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tUP...

Matt Jones, Civil Rights activist, also part of the music group The Freedom Singers - released "Hell No! I Ain't Gonna Go" (1970). The narrator refused the draft call, declared the war a sham, and said "the Vietcong just like I am...the US army is the Ku Klux Klan": www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMj...

Free Angela Davis ‘45 single

Digitising in progress...

100+ US songs about the 1979 Iranian Hostage crisis, several also reference the Vietnam War: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

Today was a special day. As I walked through My Lai, just after sunrise, an old man called out and invited me inside his house. It turned out to be Do Ba - the small child that Hugh Thompson, Larry Colburn and Glen Andreotta saved on March 16, 1968.

As well as the well-known "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", Country Joe McDonald released lots of Vietnam War-related songs, many featured on this 1985 double LP "Vietnam Experience"

400+ songs reference the Vietnam War draft - a popular topic across genres, from patriotic pride, to draft dodging, draft resistance, and draft inequality: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

New acquisitions: "Oriental Moon of Vietnam" and "Vietnam Mud"

Two great new additions to the Vietnam War Song Project, thanks to the awesome @phonicunderground.bsky.social 🧐🎵

Updated: 150+ songs about the My Lai Massacre and Lt. William Calley - the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in South Vietnam by US forces on 16 March 1968 - most of the songs released from 1969-1971 supported war criminal Calley, as did public opinion polls: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

Phil Ochs, a leading protest / topical singer born in El Paso, TX, often played songs at anti-war and civil rights rallies in the 1960s. Here's 11 of his songs related to the Vietnam War, as well as live performances: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

18 Pete Seeger songs related to the Vietnam War: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

Anti-protest garage, "What's Come Over This World" (1965) by Billy Carr, called draft card burners "an army of cowards". Full-page advert in Billboard on 6 November 1965 rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFgn...

New research: 130+ Vietnam War garage rock songs - many diversified views, from anti-protest "patriotic" songs, to peace and anti-war. Also many reference to the draft. See here: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme... Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Chicago novelty garage group Seeds of Euphoria, fed up with the war by 1967, advised LBJ: “Let’s Send Batman to Viet Nam”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWa...

Jesse Jackson speech at the National Democratic Convention on July 17, 1984: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMm...

Remembering Jesse Jackson, some songs. RIP

Lots of digitising, working through the backlog

New acquisition: "Vietnam's (Wall of Reflection)" (1983) by Tom Stiles & The Country Revue. Released in Columbus, Ohio

New acquisition: "If You Ever Want to Leave Viet Nam" (1982), rare post-war 80s song

New acquisition: "La guerra de Vietnam" (Los Dos Navegantes Luz y Chuy), not seen this one before

On the hunt in New Orleans, stop #1 Euclid Records, huge 7" collection 🧐

On the hunt, End of an Ear, Austin TX

Great anti-war song from Jimmy Cliff (1946-2025): "Vietnam" (1970) - it told the sad story of a mother receiving a letter, informing her that her son had died in Vietnam. At the end of the track Cliff pleaded: "somebody please stop that war now" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqI...

New acquisitions: 44 Vietnam and political records

New acquisition: "No More Viet Nams", by Viet Nam Vets Band

Visit to Spin Sounds, Dorking, Surrey

New acquisition: "Shipping Out to Viet Nam" (1965), Billy Thomas

New acquisition: "A Song to Florence Beaumont" - about the immolation of a US anti-Vietnam War protester. Not seen this one before, rare addition to the collection

Calgary # 5, Blackbyrd Myoozik

Calgary #4, Sloth Records

Stop #3, Turn It Up Records, Calgary

Stop #2, Recordland Limited

1st stop in Calgary, Hot Wax. On the hunt for political and war records 🧐